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T+2: SpaceX’s Red Dragon, Falcon Performance, and the Political Fallout of OA-6
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English - May 04, 2016 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 268 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Technology meco space spaceflight space exploration space colonization space policy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
SpaceX officially announced their first Red Dragon mission to Mars, which will pave the way for future missions. They also posted new performance metrics for Falcon 9 and Heavy, which position the launch vehicles very differently in the market. And a brief discussion of the potential political fallout over the OA-6 launch anomaly.
By the Numbers: How close Atlas V came to Failure in this Week’s Cygnus Launch – Cygnus OA-6 | Spaceflight101
OA-6: Atlas V booster shortcomings due to MRCV anomaly | NASASpaceFlight.com
Mixture ratio valve the culprit in Atlas 5 anomaly, next launch this summer – Spaceflight Now
HASC doubles Air Force allotment of RD-180 engines, focuses funding on building its replacement - SpaceNews.com
Capabilities & Services | SpaceX
SpaceX's new price chart illustrates performance cost of reusability - SpaceNews.com
SpaceX plans to debut Red Dragon with 2018 Mars mission | NASASpaceFlight.com
Can SpaceX really land on Mars? Absolutely, says an engineer who would know | Ars Technica
NASA Talk - Mars Entry, Descent and Landing with Humans
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